About Featured Book: Night Night, Norman by Marie Dimitrova

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Laugh out loud with the adventures of Norman, and find out what happens when we think our pets are sleeping.

Norman the horse wonders where Ellie goes after she hugs him goodnight. One night he loosens the latch on his stall and sneaks out. His equine curiosity and clumsy hooves create all sorts of chaos, leaving us wondering, will he wake Ellie?

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Alpha’s Vow by Lee Savino

The sweet human is pregnant with my pup.

We had one night together and then she ghosted. Apparently, I’m not part of her “life plan.”

She thinks I’m a player. That I won’t stick around.

She’s wrong. A wolf never walks away from his mate. If she tries to run, I’ll follow. I’ll hunt my beautiful female to the ends of the Earth.

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So what about me? Well, I’m an author and a mom and a chocoholic. I’ve written a bunch of books, all smexy romance. Smexy = smart + sexy. Check them out!

Back on Bonaire: Rediscovering Diver’s Paradise as a Father by Andrew Jalbert

A small Caribbean island. An underwater explorer turned father. Can he rediscover Bonaire through the curious eyes of a child?

Gem-clear water, warm tropical trade breezes, and graceful sea turtles soaring through a brilliant theater of kaleidoscopic coral. It’s the place that avid scuba diver and famed Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton described as “a world of riotous, outrageous color” during his visit here decades earlier. This is Bonaire, and with its protected nearshore reef system and sweeping conservation efforts, the small Caribbean island has earned the title it boasts on its license plates: Diver’s Paradise.

Drawn to Bonaire in his twenties, Andrew Jalbert transformed a passion for travel, scuba diving and the natural world into a career as a writer and underwater photographer. But when he was unexpectedly gifted with fatherhood at age forty-three, he faced the challenge of merging two seemingly incompatible lives. Determined to pass on his appreciation for this tropical paradise, Andrew annually took his son to the place he’d come to love. And over the course of their week-long excursion when the boy was five, the doting dad found the isle’s magic renewed by an insatiably curious child.

Told in lyrical prose, Jalbert recounts both his early days exploring Bonaire’s underwater treasures and the wonders of his kindergartner’s fascination. Along the way, he relates the island’s natural and cultural history, illuminates the critical need for conservation, and realizes life seen through the eyes of the young is among the greatest visions imaginable.

If you like evocative descriptions, exploration, wisdom conveyed with humor, and educational asides, then you’ll adore this expertly woven travel memoir.

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Andrew Jalbert is an award-winning photographer, writer, and doting father. Throughout his twenty-five years as an archaeologist, scuba instructor and dive guide he has traveled extensively, publishing work on prehistoric sites, shipwrecks, travel, dive safety, and marine conservation. Jalbert lives in Monona, Wisconsin with his wife Becky and their son Luc.

Think, Ask, Go (Repeat): Straight Talk for Success in Missions by Jannette Naone

In Think, Ask, Go (Repeat) – Straight Talk for Success in Missions, Naone shares hard-learned lessons about what is necessary to wrestle with and understand before you venture into the field of missions work. Through her often humorous experiences come the nitty-gritty realities that can be easily overlooked. Naone teaches us to not only think outside the box but to have the courage to remove the box altogether.

This book will challenge your thinking on missions and what it could be in the future. It offers thought provoking guidelines that are foundational to both personal and missions’ success. Think, Ask, Go (Repeat) challenges readers to dig deep, listen, and learn from every situation and mistake.

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I spent 24+ years in Overseas aid/Missions 20 years in Thailand and 4.5 years in the South pacific. It took me 24 years to discover what I should have known BEFORE we went out. I am a motivational speakers, Coach and trainer. A grandmother, Mother, Wife. I live in Hawaii with husband #2 When I remarried and relocated to Hawaii I had to reinvent myself as opportunities in my field of expertise were few and far and I was an outsider. I kept writing down stories and sharing with individuals and small groups who held a desire to work in a missions context. (Local or overseas). I have deep desire to teach these core foundational principles on which they can build and succeed. A foundation that will help them avoid some of the potholes and go round the bumps in the journey. It is a foundation that has and still is lacking.

About The California Gold Rush: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Events in the History of the United States of America and Its Impact on Native American Tribes by Captivating History

More than 300,000 people settled in the previously sparsely populated California. And they all came in the period between 1849 and 1855. But sadly, the people living in California quickly fell into violence, racism, and misogyny. Mexicans, Native Americans, other non-white settlers, and indigenous peoples were persecuted, hunted, and expelled from the territory. The California Gold Rush may have been one of the great events that shaped the US into what we know today, but it was also one of the saddest events, with 370 massacres committed upon the indigenous tribes of California.
Yet, the California Gold Rush was a period of rapid changes, of industrialization and the modernization of the whole US. The influx of immigrants from all over the world demanded that new industries be quickly set up, as well as railroads, farms, and communication lines. People needed supplies from the East and the rest of the world, as well as to keep in touch with their distant families. The quick development of California, as well as the many new beginnings and successful businesses people managed to start, gave California its nickname of the Golden State. It was a place where dreams came true, where people had hope and quick prosperity. A new philosophical idea aptly named the “California Dream” started, and many people rushed to gain a fast fortune in a new land.
If you want to learn more about the California Gold Rush, get this book now!

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A lot of history books just contain dry facts that will eventually bore the reader. That’s why Captivating History was created. Now you can enjoy history books that will mesmerize you. But be careful though, hours can fly by, and before you know it; you’re up reading way past bedtime.

Takes More Than Heart by Dennis Mellen

A growth mindset seeks the relentless pursuit of long and short term goals no matter the obstacles and opportunities. Takes More Than Heart is a book about perseverance, grit, and a driven heart. As a self-help/memoir book, I seek to reach a variety of audiences from those who experienced similar life and career changing events to athletic teams and business people
My book deals with my experiences during and since my heart attack on October 14, 2008. As a retired United States Air Force pilot and Lieutenant Colonel and a 28 year major airline Captain, the career ending event led to redefining my life at the age of 56 years with at least nine more years left until mandatory commercial pilot retirement at age 65, a career do-over if you will.
On a fateful October day, a healthy every six month FAA Class I certified medically qualified airline captain went out on mountain bike to climb a trail aptly named “It’s A Bitch”. My 3-4 workouts per week never portended a massive heart attack might occur during a planned 1-2 hour ride.
About 2/3’s of the way up the climb, out of breath and in need of a short rest, I sat down on a moss covered log and then lay supine losing consciousness. But for a couple of passing hikers, I may never have survived. Immediately dialing 9-1-1, the first responders arrived as quickly as possible considering the terrain and remote location. The 500 foot climb from the emergency vehicle with some 100 lbs. of equipment each is a testament to the EMT’s supernatural powers and endurance. From the EMT’s arrival and through the first few minutes in the hospital ER, I received some 45+ CPR shocks to revive my heart. The recovery and rehab took several months, but unhappily, I would never fly again.
There is a saying, “if you love your job, you will never work a day in your life”. I loved my job of 38 years and people would understand if I never recovered mentally from being wrenched from a career most would envy. My story revolves on all the attempts to remake my life and my career into something more meaningful than a slow drive to “Geezerville” to sit in a Barcalounger with a TV remote in one hand and a cool drink in the other.
Ranging from volunteer work at an “at-risk” student aviation based school, the head of Flight Standards at now defunct non-schedule worldwide cargo carrier, the head of Flight Training at a larger regional carrier to a worldwide consulting and aviation safety auditor traveling to Kenya, Philippines and Cape Verde, again and again I searched for the elusive “if you love your job” position searching for my new “why”, new “purpose”.
The search led me to motivational/keynote speaking, high school substitute teacher and high school baseball coach. My goal is making a difference and providing a short-cut for those with similar experiences.

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Dennis is an author, leader, motivator, mental performance master, and passionate athletic coach. Enthusiastic leadership and followership are his trademarks. He brings a high level of energy and passion to every group he engages. Weaving personal anecdotes and experiences with specific calls to action are key elements in his goal to bring education, inspiration, and entertainment to a variety of audiences.
Dennis brings years of leadership experience as a twenty-eight year retired major airline captain, and Fleet Captain, twenty-year-retired Air Force LtCol, and command pilot. His other leadership experiences include consulting, IOSA flight safety auditor, teaching/coaching high school baseball players, and developing future leaders with the Civil Air Patrol. He attended Squadron Officer School and Air Command and Staff School learning the latest Air Force leadership skills.
As a fleet captain at a major airline, he led the training for 550 pilots and forty instructors. He consulted world-wide for international air-carriers in places like Nairobi, Kenya, Manila, Philippines, and Praia, Cape Verde. He taught crew resource management and leadership to diverse international flight instructors and conducted airline safety audits.
Dennis is a Jon Gordon Power of Positive Leadership trainer. His experiences provide insightful stories to connect his audience to the foundations for leading organizations, building relationships, connecting people, and engaging teams in their vision and purpose. Dennis brings his leadership expertise to his speaking engagements leaving attendees with actionable content readily useable. With worldwide presentations in such places as Kenya, Philippines, and Cape Verde, Dennis emphasizes how diverse views can lead to innovation and new ideas.
His book entitled Takes More Than Heart, provides motivation, education and humor to inspire those who face serious challenges in their lives. His speaking business is called Be A Bean and the tagline is “transformer your team culture from ordinary water into gourmet coffee.”
He lives with his wife Heidi in the Chicago suburbs. He has four sons and a five month old grand-daughter.
“Connecting the culture with the vision.”

Live a Healthy, Happy, Long Life and Prosper Without Stress: The Life Transformation Paradigm: Seven Lifestyle Shifts to Live the Life You are Designed to Live by Jose M. Baltazar

We are designed to live a life of happiness and peace. Happiness and peace allow us to live healthy, long, and prosperously. The emphasis on the accumulation or higher earning of money to achieve peace and happiness has created a society and a world in which everyone is running around overly busy and stressed and overloaded with responsibility. At the end most cannot find peace and happiness because they are in too much debt, are chronically ill at a younger age, and most do not come out winners at the accumulation game. We are a sickened society from the results of so much stress from pursuing peace and happiness by following the wrong paradigm of living.

There is a different way, a different model. The Life Transformation Paradigm helps you find peace and happiness first so that the other things everyone wants more of, including you, can be obtained with much less effort and stress. The Life Transformational Paradigm turns conventional wisdom on its head. First you find and enjoy peace and happiness, and then you can live the life you are designed to live. You are designed to live happy and at peace, healthy, long, and prosperously. This book is about this model and how to work with it so you can start living the life you are designed to live.

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I’m a retired college educator 67 years old in great health, financially free, and full of life and desires to contribute positively to the lives of people. I am working part time developing a life and health and wellness coaching practice. I am the founder of the yearly Mind-Body and Integrative Medicine Conference in El Paso, TX and would like to be able to offer this conference in an online format as a webinar or summit. I enjoy writing, teaching, and training and have already published two books and plan to rewrite them to be able to use the BSP model to market my Accelerated Learning, and Anger Management books and services after publishing my new book.

Selling Without Sleaze: A Business Owner’s Guide to Sales (For Those Who Would Rather Not…) by Sarah Jolley-Jarvis

Most of us have a sales horror story or two…
Like buying a ‘mint’ used car that later turns out to be a write-off.

Or being upsold on an ‘extended warranty’ that’s as useful as the paper it’s printed on.
As a sales trainer who loves my job, it saddens me to admit there are a lot of cheeky gits (and git-esses!) in sales…
BUT…
If you have a great product or service that gives people practical help, or brings them joy – there’s nothing sleazy about wanting to be paid well.
So if you’re a creative entrepreneur who loves your business but HATES pushy ‘sales’ tactics like:
Fake scarcity with made up time limits
Manipulated prices and spoofed ‘discounts’
Emotional manipulation and shaming

And all the other shady sales stuff that makes people cringe…
Then this book is for you.
It’s packed full of the most effective training on how to sell your product or service with integrity, honestly…
Oh and did I mention, very profitably?

This book is designed to show you how I’ve sold millions in products and services for the multinational companies I’ve worked with…

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Sales trainer and owner of Selling Without Sleaze Limited based in the UK I train people to generate more sales in their business without being sleazy. I focus specifically on small business owners who need to sell and market their business. They are really good at what they do but what they ‘do’ isn’t sales and marketing. I work best with creative people who are always having great ideas but can’t implement them

About Ain’t Nothin’ Personal

After a kidnap-for-hire plot results in the death of a young boy, Burr police chief Emmett Hardy blames himself and has an alcohol-fueled breakdown. His life at a crossroads, Hardy checks into the hospital for treatment, only to discover upon his release that he’s been suspended from duty. When a dying prisoner contacts him about a long-forgotten unsolved case, Emmett-temporarily at loose ends-begins an informal investigation. Soon he becomes a target of violence himself, as his investigation becomes a murder probe implicating the most powerful men in town. Hardy is forced to relive one of the most traumatic events of his childhood, and faces the possibility that members of his own family may have been involved in the crime. Ultimately, with Emmett’s tenuous grasp on sobriety slipping and his moral foundation shifting beneath his feet, the answer to the question, “Who do I trust?” becomes a matter of life and death.

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Chris Kelsey father was a jazz saxophonist and his mother a school librarian. He was raised in a succession of small towns in Texas and Oklahoma. His father endowed him with a love for jazz; his mother, a passion for reading. Kelsey began playing saxophone in elementary school and never laid it down. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Central Oklahoma, then moved to New York City, where he made something of a name for himself playing, composing, teaching, and ultimately writing about strange and obtuse forms of modern jazz. He’s been published by a variety of publications, including Ms., Magazine, Jazziz, JazzTimes, and The All Music Guide. As a musician, he’s recorded and produced upwards of twenty albums under his own name, for the C.I.M.P and Unseen Rain labels, and his own Saxofonis and Tzazz Krytyk imprints. Kelsey’s CD, What I Say: The Electric Miles Project, won a 2013 Independent Music Award for Best Tribute Album. Kelsey currently lives in Dutchess County, NY, with his wife Lisa, son Jasper, and daughter Meret. His first novel, Where the Hurt Is, won the 2018 PenCraft Award for Fiction Book of the Year. Ain’t Nothin Personal is his third novel.

About A Not so Purrfect Murder

Felicity Knight leaves London for the English countryside after being dumped. She finds both a wounded white cat and stumbles on the friendly village tearoom owner who is stabbed to death.

Driven to solve the senseless killing, Felicity is shocked when a ley-line triggers her magic, and her new four-legged companion starts talking to her.

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About The Polar Bear and the Dragon, Dawn of an Alliance by Debbie Watson

This magical fantasy is written for ages 10 and up. A young girl named Whitney is suddenly confronted with way too many problems! The summer of her thirteenth birthday is being hijacked! Terrified by nightmares and confused by strange new gifts, it feels like her life is spiraling out of control. Should she risk joining forces with a mysterious and powerful ally?

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The author lives in Northern Michigan with her husband and two furry kids. Writing about Whitney and her friends was so much fun, Debbie continued their story in Book 2: Dream Jumper that comes out in early August. Debbie has always enjoyed getting lost in good books and hopes that her memorable characters and exciting plot will do that for you! Cheers to finding new worlds, strange characters and discovering your own gifts!

About Hopeless In The City

Angelica had dreamed of moving to New York since she was a child. Staring on Broadway was her dream. When she met her two best friends at a young age, they worked their way to the top of their art and saved up for the big move.
When the starring role was up for grabs Angelica didn’t waste any time.
She learned that life in the big city could be rough and some dancers aren’t nice. Will Angelica let the bad boy dancer break her confidence? Or will the handsome neighbor help her realize, she had the goods the entire time?

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CJ is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant. She spent twenty years touring the world and working within the Civil Engineer Operations Management Career Field. Her time in the Air Force took her to Japan, New Mexico, Texas, England, Germany, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Oman, and Bulgaria. Upon Retirement in 2017, she followed her dreams and starting writing. She became a published Author in 2018 and now has published children’s books, memoirs, Young Adult Romance, and multiple genres all available on Amazon. She is the founder and host of The Authors Porch podcast and Blog along with The Bombshell Book Review. Her weekly Podcast shows allow her to talk to people and learn the light they are bringing into the world.

About Back on Bonaire: Rediscovering Diver’s Paradise as a Father

A small Caribbean island. An underwater explorer turned father. Can he rediscover Bonaire through the curious eyes of a child?

Gem-clear water, warm tropical trade breezes, and graceful sea turtles soaring through a brilliant theater of kaleidoscopic coral. It’s the place that avid scuba diver and famed Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton described as “a world of riotous, outrageous color” during his visit here decades earlier. This is Bonaire, and with its protected nearshore reef system and sweeping conservation efforts, the small Caribbean island has earned the title it boasts on its license plates: Diver’s Paradise.

Drawn to Bonaire in his twenties, Andrew Jalbert transformed a passion for travel, scuba diving and the natural world into a career as a writer and underwater photographer. But when he was unexpectedly gifted with fatherhood at age forty-three, he faced the challenge of merging two seemingly incompatible lives. Determined to pass on his appreciation for this tropical paradise, Andrew annually took his son to the place he’d come to love. And over the course of their week-long excursion when the boy was five, the doting dad found the isle’s magic renewed by an insatiably curious child.

Told in lyrical prose, Jalbert recounts both his early days exploring Bonaire’s underwater treasures and the wonders of his kindergartner’s fascination. Along the way, he relates the island’s natural and cultural history, illuminates the critical need for conservation, and realizes life seen through the eyes of the young is among the greatest visions imaginable.

If you like evocative descriptions, exploration, wisdom conveyed with humor, and educational asides, then you’ll adore this expertly woven travel memoir.

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Andrew Jalbert is an award-winning photographer, writer, and doting father. Throughout his twenty-five years as an archaeologist, scuba instructor and dive guide he has traveled extensively, publishing work on prehistoric sites, shipwrecks, travel, dive safety, and marine conservation. Jalbert lives in Monona, Wisconsin with his wife Becky and their son Luc.

About Tender Mercies for Tough Moments

Tender Mercies for Tough Moments: A 31 Day Journey into the Blessings of God is a unique and powerful walk with God while experiencing the storms of life. Each day includes a blessing, a prayer and a Bible meditation for many difficult circumstances including pain and sorrow, shame and guilt, disappointment, loneliness, forgiveness, emptiness of the soul, and many more. Readers will be enabled to know God, be forgiven and walk in peace as they study each devotion. The Holy Spirit blesses the hearts of those who read this book as they experience a growing personal faith in Jesus Christ.

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Teresa E. Nelson the pastor of a rural MN congregation and is also the author of the newly released mystery novel, “Whisper County.” Her experience in award-winning community service, church and jail ministry, education and human services have equipped her for the writing of each book. Her lifetime of knowing and helping folks carrying heavy burdens has prepared her to pen these real life issues and introduce the God of all power, victory and comfort to them. To assist charitable organizations in her area, Teresa also serves as a nonprofit auctioneer when needed. In her spare time, Teresa and her family enjoy their rural MN home and the wildlife roaming their fields.

About Where There’s A Will: Inspector Stone Mysteries 1

The kidnapping of a child is every parent’s worst nightmare, for the Keatings though it isn’t a nightmare, it’s a reality.

Inspector Stone is tasked with finding Alice Keating and bringing her home safely. Hard enough under normal circumstances, but between investigating an unrelated armed robbery, family problems, and the machinations of an ambitious underling, it’s almost impossible.

Unbeknown to either Stone or Alice’s parents, the kidnappers have more in mind than collecting a ransom. And when it turns out that the Russian Mafia might be involved in the kidnapping, things begin to spiral out of Stone’s control.

Can Stone find Alice before the kidnappers make good on their threats? If not it won’t just be Alice that becomes a victim to their deadly plans…

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After enduring school and a decade and a half of employment in a variety of jobs, Alex R Carver left the day jobs behind to become a carer for various family members. While this has been hard work, both physically and mentally, it has given him an opportunity to follow his dream and write.

Reflecting his interest in true crime, Alex mainly writes mysteries and thrillers, however he has taken a diversion into the world of science fiction, and is exploring young adult fiction with his current work in progress.

Released titles include 5 books in the Inspector Stone Mysteries, the thriller duology, The Oakhurst Murders, and the first book in the Cas Dragunov scifi/space opera series.

About Fairywing

High School sucks! It sucks even more for Drusilla Bonnet, a transgender witch. Catching the eye of Michael Prince, an attractive new comer isn’t helping matters. Drusilla is torn between following her heart, and her fears, Drusilla must navigate the difficulties of home and school life alike. All while trying to keep her sister Mary from spinning out of control. Between dunking on Michael Prince and fighting for Mary’s affection George Geppetto has a lot on his plate. When the bodies start to pile up the four of them must work together, or be lost in the trees forever.

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D. H. Torkavian was born in the dead of winter under the auspicious sign of the quarter moon. Most of her family was woefully unprepared for the baby bundle of transgender realness. Her mummum was the only one who understood her growing up. At a young age Mummum thought her the finer points of being a proper Norwegian house wife and witchcraft. All of this was done in secret. Her childhood was split between New Jersey and California as her mummum fell ill.

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When Mummum died, D.H. Torkavian was devastated. At the age of 12, D.H. Torkavian began writing to cope with the loss, despite not being able to read or write. Despite this hurdle, D.H. Torkavian pressed on and was eventually published in her high school newspaper and literary magazine. In college she was a top editor and contributor for her college literary magazine, Rewrites.

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D.H. Torkavian has also been a contributor for The Press of Atlantic City, Heaven Sent Gaming, and The Geek Initiative.

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D.H. Torkavian currently holds court in coffee shops in the Pacific North West. She is often found drinking hot chocolate and hoping for rain.

About Summary & Analysis of Get Good with Money

In Get Good with Money, Tiffany Aliche lays out the steps readers can take to organize their finances and create their best lives.

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About The Muse of Fire

On sale for 99 cents from May 9 to May 16, 2021

Shakespeare’s sweeping themes meet the wit of Jane Austen in a mashup of theater riots and drawing room angst.

Based on real events, The Muse of Fire takes readers behind the scenes of London’s massive Covent Garden theater at the dawn of the 19thCentury. The intrigue, romance, and betrayal swirling around the actors offstage rivals anything they must perform onstage.

After the death of her mother, Grace Johnson follows her abusive father to London and discovers a passion for the stage. But she must fight against social norms to find her place as a Shakespearean actress in the fraught world of early 19th Century theater.

Aided by Ned, a foundling who takes charge backstage at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Grace becomes ensnared by intrigues and setbacks that mar the pathway to stardom she craves.

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Old Price Riots of 1809, Grace and Ned find common purpose in a quest that threatens to tear both their worlds apart.

Winner of the Bronze for Best Historical Fiction from the Independent Publishers’ Awards and First in Category for the Goethe Awards.

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Carol M.Cram loves the arts, food, travel, and writing novels about people who follow their passions.

Carol writes about women in the arts in her first three award-winning novels of historical fiction, The Towers of Tuscany, A Woman of Note and The Muse of Fire, and matches her travel-inspired vignettes with pastel drawings created by her husband, Canadian artist Gregg Simpson in Pastel & Pen: Travels in Europe. In Love Among the Recipes, a woman searches for new passions amid the sights and tastes of Paris.

Carol expresses her enthusiasm for the written word, the arts, and her love of travel on Artsy Traveler (artsytraveler.com) and Art In Fiction (artinfiction.com), and on the Art In Fiction Podcast in her chats with authors who write novels inspired by the arts. She also teaches writing courses and mentors new authors–one of her favorite things to do.

In addition to being a novelist, Carol is the author of over sixty bestselling college textbooks in computer applications and communications for Cengage Learning and was also on faculty at Capilano University in North Vancouver for two over decades. She holds an MA in Drama from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. She lives with her husband, painter Gregg Simpson, on beautiful Bowen Island near Vancouver, BC, where she also teaches Nia, a holistic dance/fitness practice.